Florida's Scumfuck formed in 2017 at the intersection of brutal death metal and deathcore, weaponizing the genre's most punishing extremes into a relentless sonic assault. Their approach leans into guttural low-end devastation and breakneck tempo shifts that typify the brutal deathcore underground. Unapologetically vicious, they are a product of the deep Florida death metal tradition refracted through modern deathcore aggression.

Florida's Seed of Pain bridge the raw fury of thrash metal and the breakneck physicality of metalcore, landing squarely in the crossover space where hardcore kids and headbangers share pit real estate. Since forming in 2018, they've pursued an abrasive, high-energy sound that owes as much to the spirit of NYHC as it does to Bay Area thrash.

Hailing from Unionville, Florida, Serration have been cultivating a raw and uncompromising strain of death metal since 2018, drawing on the punishing aesthetic of the Florida tradition while carving their own jagged edge. Their approach favors heaviness over technicality, leaning into grinding riffs and brutal rhythmic punishment.

Tallahassee's Sexual Predator traffic in a chaotic convergence of black metal, death metal, and grindcore that resists easy categorization — raw and confrontational in all three modes at once. Formed in 2015 in Florida's fertile extreme music underground, they favor intensity and dissonance over any single style's rulebook.

Miami's Shadows Carnage launched in 2024 with a death metal sound shaped by South Florida's long and storied extreme metal legacy. Brand new to the scene but working in a city that has produced some of the genre's most influential acts, they bring a ferocious, sun-scorched brutality to the tradition.

Hailing from Hudson, Florida, this death/thrash hybrid tears through riff-heavy territory with the swampy intensity expected from the Sunshine State's underground, formed in 2011.

Brutal death metal band from Cocoa Beach, Florida, formed in 2021, delivering the kind of dense, down-tuned carnage that fits squarely in Florida's long tradition of extreme metal extremity.

Fort Lauderdale death metal stalwarts with roots going back to 2002, part of the fertile South Florida scene that has produced some of the most punishing extremity in American metal history.

Tampa death metal institution founded in 1995 by ex-Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes, known for mid-paced, groove-driven death metal with blunt lyrical carnage and a death 'n' roll swagger that separates them from the more technical end of Florida's scene. Prolific and uncompromising, they remain one of Tampa's most recognizable extreme metal exports.